Your Ten Favorite Shows Currently on Television

Kind of like Casual on Hulu. Not groundbreaking and mildly irritating at times and reminds me a fair amount of Transparent without the trans aspect, but it's watchable.

has anyone watched The Path on Hulu? Saw it pop up on some best TV shows of 2016 list and hadn't even heard of it.

would have thought a new Jason Katims show with Aaron Paul would be getting more buzz

I watched it. It starts off slow but gets rolling by about episode 3. Definitely worthwhile if you're at all fascinated by cults.

First ep of The Night Of was a good watch

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Richard Price, John Turturro = I'm in

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watched the first two, its good
somewhat hard to see gandolfini as the turturro role, wonder how much it was changed?
didnt realize its 8 eps, looking fwd to it all summer
detective dennis box is a great character name

second season of Difficult People clicked for me so I went to Billy in the Street; it's great

Currently catching up on Shameless, which I had mistakenly pegged as Married With Children but with more tits and profanity 'cause cable; turns out it's a surprisingly dark and perceptive comedy-drama about how to survive against all odds, but turns into a show about how living in constant white-trash survival-hustle mode totally fails to prepare you to live among people whose lives have been even incrementally more privileged than yours.

Just starting on Stranger Things, The Night Of, and catching up with, of all things, Community.

loving The Night Of! first time i've watched a series in real time in a while, and the wait is beautiful and agonizing

Trayce I've just been watching s7 of Community. Didn't really feel it although it had some good lols

damn, The Night Of seriously went off the rails

I haven't watched the latest ep yet, but despite it being absolutely unconvincing fluff - i've enjoyed it up to now.

there's one plot thread I'm not too into, but it's otherwise an interesting game that's not any less convincing than most procedurals, especially the really formulaic long-running series that tend to elide some of the ambiguity this show is into

I do keep screaming "the cat! follow the cat! there's a clue there!" at the tv, though

the gal and i are watching The Wire front to back and just started season 4, so I'm behind on almost everything.
i'm watching episodes of bojack horseman as i fall asleep. it's not very good but i keep trying.

Otherwise, the current and forthcoming ten are:
Difficult People
Billy on the Street
Adam Ruins Everything
Full Frontal
You're the Worst
Eric Andre
PBS Newshour
Inside Comedy

Backlog of the moment includes: Night Of, Mr. Robot, Great British Baking Show, a gazillion american experiences about presidents
Gonna try Gomorrah.

The direction of The Night Of has been disappointing, but the characters and performances keep me in it.

Looking forward to the return of You're The Worst soon.

Currently watching Humans on Amazon; it's pretty good, certainly better than Ex Machina.

Also watching season 2 of The Strain on Hulu, because sometimes I like to fill my brain with garbage.

Season 3 of The Strain starts this weekend!

I know; that's why I'm trying to catch up! I'm not sure what the delay period will be between new episodes airing on FX and showing up on Hulu - I think it's eight days, though.

Are they adding them during the season? afaik fx shows only appear as a complete season much later

ohh yay am looking forward to The Strain coming back
it's fun monster candy

i still like The Night Of but yeah the first few eps were very intriguing.

I caught up on season 2 of halt and catch fire a month or so ago, looking forward to season 3 starting... what, tonight?

The Night Of - good finale. Stone's speech was good, and the kitty on TV cracked me up.

I was so glad that they went for a low-key finale, it was looking dicey for a few weeks there.

I have finally settled into Braindead & am really enjoying it
It's v silly but I dig it.

just finished up the night of... not really sure what to say about it, enjoyed it on a whole i guess?

I really liked the night of, much more than most it seems. I was genuinely moved by the last episode, particularly by how the characters themselves were moved by the prospect of actual innocence.

(not knowing he's innocent, but somehow believing it)

agreed. the grayness of the plot and the legal and social limbo that the characters hang in is something that I feel it did well. too many crime/legal drama shows hang on the idea that there's some resolution, but with this show there's the acknowledgment that the nature of life is changing and nothing's resolved, no one is healed, and eventually all you can hope to do is to accept that everything is conflicted. the last scene is the closest we get to outright good and it's played against what could be a really cringe-worthy moment. (no spoilers)

it was really obvious what was going on with john turturro's character but the acknowledgment in the last episode was good

I even think the parts of the last two episodes that most commenters have disdained (no spoilers but if you've seen you know what I mean) weren't set up perfectly but they pointed to something rather poignant about the character and their lack of suitability for the system they are working in.

critics and commenters seem to have legitimate problems with pace and plotting and preferences about how things should be revealed and combine the two for the sake of creating one "why this show is bad" argument and it annoys me. this show is one case, but it's true of a lot of television.

"I don't like how they did scripted it" and "they didn't actually do this in the plot" are two different things

The Night Of followed the trajectory of immense highs followed by cringeworthy lows similar to Lost or Twin Peaks but was thanfully only limited to a single 8 episode run.

^ that's the most "i guess i WILL watch this then" recommendation i've heard for that show yet.

lol

Trayce I've just been watching s7 of Community. Didn't really feel it although it had some good lols

Community has 7 seasons???

anyone catch Gomorrah?

yeah i watched both seasons, very stylish and violent fun. An improvement on the overrated movie imo.

Watching on a weekly basis: Difficult People, You're the Worst (First ep of season three was excellent!), Eric Andre, PBS Newshour, reruns of Billy on the Street, Adam Ruins Everything, Inside Comedy, The Wire (finally finishing season 5; got through what I think is my fourth rewatch of the whole series this summer... gf's first time through)

Sorta kinda embarrassedly but still consistently watching if I'm being honest: Last Week Tonight, Hard Knocks, Vice Principals, Tonight Show, Late Show, Conan, Kimmel, Any Given Sunday

Accumulating/accumulated more or less a full current season and am beginning to wonder if I'm gonna get around to it once I finally finish rewatching season 5 of The Wire: Mr. Robot, The Night Of, The Great British Baking Show, Roots

Back on shortly and sure to be in regular rotation: Full Frontal, NFL, Jeopardy, Adventure Time, Frontline, Inside the NFL

Back on shortly and I suppose I'll watch an episode or two to see if it's any better: Masters of Sex

New shows (or shows I'm opting into this season) that i have added to season pass to be taped: Superstore, Gomorrah, Atlanta, Queen Sugar, Better Things, Loosely Exactly Nicole, Mary and Jane, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Quarry, Son of Zorn, High Maintenance, Legends of Chamberlain Heights, High Maintenance, The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show On Earth, The Good Place, Westworld No Tomorrow, Divorce, Insecure

Top twenty or so films/docs waiting to be watched: Fast Workers (Tod Browning), Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman), In the Heart of the Sea, Contempt (Godard), Spirits of the Dead (Fellini), Brooklyn, King George, Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks, Meet the Donors, 5 episodes of American Experience on US Presidents, Three Extremes, 5 films from TCMs Pioneers of African-American Cinema series

Oh, forgot the pile of netflix and amazon and hulu shows on the way as well, most prominently:
One Mississippi, Fleabag, Crisis in Six Scenes, Transparent, Luke Cage... and we gotta retry Jessica Jones and tackle s.2 of Daredevil yet

re netflix: just finished new bojack season, thought it was great. watched stranger things just like everyone else. watched 3rd season of magi and liked this enough to go back to first season which i've never seen. SHINDOBATTO!

re the other network i watch: catching up on all the steven universes i fell behind on (that show is great), eric andre, new brad neely is... ok, embarrassed to admit i've been watching MDE: WP.

bailed on UNREAL after the shooting ep. bailed on Mr. Robot after s02e01.

i finished the first season of bojack, still not sure what everyone's raving about. Amy Sedaris makes everything better of course. Is it notably better in season two?
Stranger Things is now deep backlog.

iirc i liked bojack from the beginning so if it hasn't clicked for you it might not - but that said the second and third seasons are substantial improvements

i was lured into it (after watching the first ep when it first aired and hating it) after the ridiculous cultural acclaim but i remain confused.
thus far it feels like a half-step up from American Dad and that's a hell of a low bar.

bailed on Mr. Robot after s02e01.

Excellent choice.

i was lured into it (after watching the first ep when it first aired and hating it) after the ridiculous cultural acclaim but i remain confused.
thus far it feels like a half-step up from American Dad and that's a hell of a low bar.

s2 is where the show really locks into place, the acclaim will seem way less dissonant when you finish that one imo

ctrl-f "last chance U"

although both it and you're the worst have made me permanently tired @ "this show nails depression" thinkpieces

(you're the worst does it better than bojack imo, bojack relies upon a lot of "oh this is what's happening to me mentally right now" exposition)

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genuinely surprised that difficult people is supposed to be good, one of the worst first episodes I've ever suffered through

i've seen a lot of the bojack is about depression think pieces but while i think that's present it's more about the malaise + vapidity of american culture and the numbing, alienating effect it produces in ppl horses